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Nexus X HumectressNBC Forced To Admit 71% DISAPPROVE Of Country Under Biden
Krystal and Saagar cover the detailed new polling that shows how badly Biden is doing on the most important political issues of the day and on the fundamental questions about the country
Andrew Cuomo CHARGED With “Forcible Touching,” Manchin Threatens To KILL Paid Family Leave
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the criminal charges against former Governor Andrew Cuomo, and discuss the imminent vote on Democrat’s multi-trillion dollar budget package.
Donors In DESPAIR Over Kamala, Plot A Pete Takeover
Krystal dives into the potential Kamala vs Pete matchup in the 2024 Democratic primary that is currently being set up by battles between elites and donors behind the scenes
Youngkin Attacks On Criminal Justice Reform Put McAuliffe On The Defensive
By Jenny Gathright, DCist.Com During the last two years, Virginia has seen historic changes to its criminal justice system — changes that may not have been politically possible just a few years ago in the once-purple state. Lawmakers legalized recreational weed and abolished the death penalty. And they […]
Rachael Rollins wants to remake the criminal justice system. Republicans have vowed to block her path
By Joanna Slater, Washington Post BOSTON — When President Biden announced a slate of nominees to serve as top federal prosecutors across the country, Republican senators approved them without controversy. All except for one. When it came to Rachael Rollins, the nominee for United States attorney for the […]
Both Parties Are Working to Create a One-Party State
The two articles below, one by conservative scholar Paul Gottfried and one from the liberal Washington Spectator, make for an interesting comparison and contrast. The common theme is that the electoral system is losing legitimacy, and both parties are looking for ways to bypass electoral requirements in order […]
America’s ‘Big Sort’ Is Only Getting Bigger
From 2016. By Richard Florida, Bloomberg Setting the nuttiness of Donald Trump and his candidacy aside, the 2016 presidential campaign serves as a fitting reminder of America’s deepening partisan divide. Americans have not only grown more ideologically polarized over the past couple of decades, Republicans and Democrats are […]
Amazon CAUGHT Firing Workers After Crises
Krystal and Saagar talk with NYT investigative journalist Jodi Kantor about how Amazon has been firing blue and white collar workers after family issues or other personal problems
Breaking Points: 11/1/21 Full UNCUT Show
Krystal and Saagar talk about the VA Gov election happening tomorrow, more terrible polling for Biden, what’s left in the reconciliation bill, Andrew Cuomo charges, Fox News getting exposed, Pete vs Kamala, Let’s Go Brandon, and More! The guest interview with Jodi Kantor will be sent out later […]
Have we reached the high water mark of woke?
By Joel Kotkin, Spiked American progressives are provoking a furious backlash. Over the past decade, the woke agenda has crested like a giant tsunami, covering virtually the entirety of academia, the media, the corporate world and even the military. The Gramscian concept of ‘the long march through the […]
In first, Guantanamo detainee details CIA torture in court
Al-Jazeera Majid Khan details being waterboarded, sexually and physically assaulted at CIA black sites during sentencing hearing. A detainee held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre has offered the first public account in a United States court of torture at a CIA clandestine facility during Washington’s decades-long so-called […]
Lyceum Round-Table #44: Is green energy sustainable?
Todd Lewis joined with Swithun Dobson and Keith Preston to discuss the feasibility of Green Energy
Sex trafficking is actually not a serious problem in the US
By Cathy Reisenwitz I’m about to blow your mind. Sex trafficking is actually not a serious problem in the US. Not by any objective measure, anyway. Verifiable instances of total strangers kidnapping people and forcing them at gunpoint into sex slavery in the US are vanishingly rare. When […]
How to Escape One World Government?
In this era of uncertainty and constant changes, it seems like there’s no place to run because it’s going to get bad everywhere. In this video, Andrew shares his thoughts on one government policy that will rule the world.
The Man Behind Critical Race Theory
By Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought. The town of Harmony, Mississippi, which owes its origins to a small number of formerly enslaved Black people who bought […]
New laws in the new normal
Anarchist News “Potential illegality comes within the law today, but the farseeing eye of the censor looks ahead to foresee its possible outcome. In the same way social deviance today might be a possible object of study or surprise, tomorrow it could become a concrete manifestation of social […]
The American prison system is the haunted house of tomorrow
By Jeva Lange, The Week If you believe the stories — and I’m not entirely sure I don’t — America is very, very, very haunted. We have haunted houses and haunted hotels, haunted courthouses and haunted cemeteries, haunted theaters, haunted restaurants, haunted bridges, haunted boats, and even entire […]
Understanding The Landscape Of The Left – David Pakman
David Pakman is a political commentator and host of The David Pakman Show. The Left and The Right really aren’t talking very well at the moment. It feels like if people don’t have the same political leaning, they see the world in an entirely different way, whether that’s […]
Breakup! A Freedom Lover’s Guide to Surviving the End of Empire
Tom Woods Show Matt Asher discusses the prospects for American breakup, and what we should do while we wait. LISTEN HERE
For Most Americans, the Local Presidential Vote Was a Landslide
Americans continue to self-select into localized lifestyle-based enclaves. Tenth Amendment constitutionalists and states rights conservatives ignore the fact that political conflict is now local rather than regional when it comes to geography. In order to function, pan-secessionism would need to assume the form of something like ancient Greece, […]
The Inverted New Deal: Elites Vote Democratic; Working-Class, Republican
The party realignment is almost entirely complete at this point. The Democrats are the party of educated elites, and the Republicans are the party of the poor and working-class, with race being an outlier issue. This does not mean that the Republicans are becoming the party of “class […]
The Limitations of Class Politics in a Society Divided by Tribal/Sectarian Conflict
It is true that class divisions are the widest they have been in 100 years, and there are now more strikes going on than at any time since WW2. However, the class-based politics favored by the economic left still faces an uphill battle in terms of becoming the […]
The USA’s New Civil War?
https://nomadcapitalist.com/ Wondering about the current condition of the United States? Historian and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said that the present day is one of the worst times in American history. In this video, Andrew shares an article from https://www.mediaite.com/ and discusses his thoughts on all the chaos that’s […]
The American Monster Machine
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America likes to think of itself like Van Helsing in a world full of monsters; a rogue vigilante republic cursed with the responsibility to protect the weak and the downtrodden from the forces of evil with it’s superpowers. […]
Pete and Aaron From Timeline Earth Begin Reading The Unabomber’s Manifesto
Aaron is one of the hosts of the Timeline Earth podcast. Aaron and Pete begin a series where they read the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski’s, Manifesto and comment on it.
Saudi Arabia’s Role in 9/11 and Why the U.S. Government has Kept it Hidden
Given by James Kreindler ’77, Partner, Kreindler & Kreindler LLP. Currently, Mr. Kreindler is the co-chair of the Plaintiff’s Committee in the 9/11 Litigation on behalf of the 9/11 families to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its role in the 9/11 attacks. The lawsuit alleges that members of […]
Was this Eritrean Man the Oldest Man Alive?
Africa.Com A man in Eritrea has died at the age of 127, his family has said, expressing the hope that Natabay Tinsiew will earn a place in the Guinness World Records as the oldest person to have ever lived. Mr Natabay died peacefully in his village, Azefa – […]
Steven Pinker On Rationality In Our Tribal Times
By Andrew Sullivan Pinker’s new book is Rationality. It’s like taking a Harvard course on the tricks our minds play on us. We had a blast — and I pressed him on several points. You can listen to the episode right away in the audio player embedded above, […]
A C.I.A. Fighter, a Somali Bomb Maker, and a Faltering Shadow War
By Declan Walsh, Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes New York Times MOGADISHU, Somalia — The C.I.A. convoy rolled out of Mogadishu in the dead of night, headed south along a crumbling ocean road that led deep into territory controlled by Al Shabab, one of Africa’s deadliest militant groups. […]
How Does Anti-Racism Hurt Black People? – John McWhorter
John McWhorter is a linguist, associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University and an author.
What Happened to Matt Taibbi? The former darling of the liberal media is now one of its loudest critics. He says he hasn’t changed.
By Ross Barkan Obviously, I’m anxious about why I’m being profiled,” Matt Taibbi said at the end of our phone call this summer, which had already lasted an hour and a half. He was on vacation with his family. The day before, they went on a whale watch. […]
Revolutions and Counterrevolutions: Their Consequences for Democracy Civil Wars, Revolutions and Counterrevolutions in Finland, Spain, and Greece (1918-1949): A Comparative Analysis
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Christopher Mims: Inside the Supply Chain Crisis
Christopher Mims, author of Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door — Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy and Wall Street Journal technology columnist, joins The Realignment to tell the story of the worldwide supply chain crunch, from the 2018 trade war between China […]
How Democrats’ FAILURES Undermine Democracy
Krystal and Saagar are joined by David Sirota of the Daily Poster as part of a continued collaboration to discuss the Democrats weak response to the financial crisis and how it parallels to today
Central Planners Clinging to Hope That Inflation Is “Transitory”
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Don’t want to listen? Read the podcast below! Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. As trading closes out for October ahead of Halloween, the specter of inflation is haunting markets. While some investors still cling to the hope that […]
How To Turn The GOP Green
By Andrew Sullivan We need both parties to prevent environmental catastrophe. Here’s how we do it. Politics is downstream of culture. Change the culture and (sooner or later) you change the politics. But some political issues have such hefty cultural baggage, it’s incredibly hard to shift the politics. […]
Biden Visits With Pope Francis As Domestic Woes Continue To Run RAMPANT, Approval Numbers DIVE
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 42 percent of voters approve of Joe Biden as president while 47 percent disapprove and 11 percent said neither. This survey was conducted online within the United States from Oct 20-23 among 2727 registered voters by HarrisX. The […]
Raytheon’s $75M losses after US Afghanistan Withdrawal DWARFED by MASSIVE $16.4 BILLION Q3 profits
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to news that Raytheon lost $75M in sales as a result of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
David Pepper CALLS OUT Undemocratic Statehouses, The “GREATEST Threat” To American Democracy
As totalitarian humanism achieves hegemony at the federal, corporate, financial, academic, and media levels, the neo-Know Nothings and the right-wing of the oligarchy are waging an insurgency at the regional level. Interesting. Former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, David Pepper, details his new book: Laboratories Of Autocracy: […]
Restaurants Turn To ROBOTS To Replace Staff, Almost HALF Of Businesses Can’t Find Skilled Workers
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss the labor shortage, and how the food industry has turned to automation to address staffing issues.
Dems Will Have To PAY For Their ABANDONMENT Of Working And Middle Class Voters In 2022
Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, explains how Democrats’ broken promises are jeopardizing democracy.
Fox News’ Chris Wallace PRAISES Psaki As “One Of The Best Press Secretaries Ever”
Team Rising debate Jen Psaki’s performance as White House press secretary.
‘Girlboss’ Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Allegedly DUPED Betsy DeVos’s Family Out Of $100M
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss reporting that Betsy DeVos’ family invested $100M in Elizabeth Holmes failed venture, Theranos.
ROLLING BACK Child Labor Laws? New WI Bill To Allow 14 & 15 Yr Olds To Work Until 11PM
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the bill proposed in Wisconsin that would loosen child labor law restrictions.
Combatting Chemical Weapon Disinformation
By Adaku Jane Echendu The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction poses serious concerns for global peace and security. There are growing concerns over the manner chemical weapons are being deployed in conflicts like in Syria where it has been used persistently (Koblentz, 2019). It has also been […]
Emotions, MEmotions, Moral Batteries and High-Risk Activism: Understanding the Emotional Practices of the Spanish Anarchists under Franco’s Dictatorship
By Eduardo Romanos This article studies the reactivation of activist networks in high-risk settings through a longitudinal analysis of the emotional practices of Spanish anarchists under Franco’s dictatorship (1939–75). The anarchists mobilised a series of emotions in their discourse, seeking to change the degree and quality of emotions […]
Wages jump by the most on records dating back 20 years
It makes sense. Labor shortages combined with legislated minimum wage increases would likely have the effect of increasing wage rates overall, but at the cost of contributing to the inflation rates that we’re seeing now as employers tend to pass labor costs onto consumers. By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP […]
“Meltdown”: How “Hope and Change” led to MAGA
By Matt Taibbi Interview with David Sirota, creator of the new Audible podcast series about the aftereffects of the 2008 financial crash, produced by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions. “What’s really cool is I have very few friends in DC,” says Meltdown podcast creator David Sirota. “When this […]
Why the F.B.I. Loves Mob Podcasts
By Rachel Corbett The New Yorker A slew of true-crime content hosted by former members of the Mafia has attracted a surprising set of devotees: law-enforcement agents, looking for a deeper understanding of some of the biggest cases of their careers. To join the Mafia, one must take […]
SOROS FUNDS News Organization To Combat ‘Misinformation’
Krystal and Saagar give their take on the newly formed media group led by Democratic operatives being funded by Soros and other billionaires to combat ‘misinformation’ on the internet
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